Word: papally
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...linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week he takes his pick of a dozen book deals, all offering advances, according to a publishing source, "beyond the papal range" - which means he beats his wife's $8 million. Domestic speech offers are matching international ones, $100,000 to start. No one is saying how much he has pocketed so far, but he has reportedly turned down $65 million worth of business opportunities...
UKRAINE A Papal Call for Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, apologizing in Ukrainian for past "errors" and declaring that "unity and harmony ... is the secret of peace". NORTHERN IRELAND Showdown The British and Irish governments planned intensive negotiations to tackle the latest crisis in the peace process. The reason: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First...
...time, it looked as if the Arellanos had gone over the line. But after offering confession and begging forgiveness in a secret meeting with the papal nuncio, they simply stepped up the violence. They recruited hardened gang members from San Diego, as well as the bored sons of affluent Tijuana families--a trigger-happy cadre known as "los narco-juniors." Mexican ex-military and police officers filled out their ranks of assassins and helped train new members. They imported not only guns but also heavy weapons from U.S. arms traffickers (they once threatened to fire rocket-propelled grenades...
Making sense of the process of picking the city to host the quadrennial Olympic Games is not easy. Think of it as a sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After...
Making sense of the process of picking the city to host the quadrennial Olympic Games is not easy. Think of it as a sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After...